Wikimedia Hackathon 2020/Remote Hackathon

THANK YOU for joining the Remote Wikimedia Hackathon. If you would like to provide feedback around how the event went for you and what future organizers can do to improve please add your feedback here. You can also check the same link for some participant / session data.

Welcome to the organization page for the the Remote Hackathon! This event will be a virtual & social initiative as an alternative to the in-person event :) May 9 - 10, 2020 (Saturday - Sunday) — fully remote!

We are learning as we go around how to organize virtual events - so please bring both your ideas for your own work as well as ideas for how to help us improve this event. All of the facilitators at the bottom of this page are here to help you with any ideas that you have - but you should also feel very empowered to add your own ideas or make changes without checking with us first.

The intention of this initiative is to provide a virtual space for folks to spend time with each other, work on projects, and have fun!

All projects, people, and ideas are welcome and this meeting will be created for and by the participants. Feel free to add your ideas to the section below.

Before deploying potentially risky or large features during this time, please read and follow wikitech:Deployments/Covid-19. There is reduced capacity for deployments due to Covid-19.

Everyone who wants to join the event, is welcome.

CHANGE: After some discussions within the facilitators group we have decided to reduce this to a two day weekend event. We hope this will allow more folks to prioritize and end up being online and participating at the same time.

Your first step should be stopping into the telegram or IRC channels and saying hi! Introduce yourself and say what you are planning to work on, what you can help with, what you need help with. Keep people up to date with what are you doing as the event progresses, too!

Don't forget to add anything you are working on the the Phabricator work-board also. That way people can see what is happening and comment or join in more easily on your project.

As the event progresses, make any changes you need. Do you feel the need to have a never ending social video call to make jokes about farm animals? Start one and tell us! Do you want people to provide feedback on your work so far? Start a video call or telegram channel and ask people to join. Would you like to accomplish something but don't know how? Ask in the main chats and someone will help you.

If you would like to specifically spend time helping newcomers or people who don't know what to do - please join our dedicated Remote Hackathon Newcomer Support telegram channel.

We have a Remote Hackathon Newcomer Support telegram channel where you can join to get even more personalized support. No question is too basic and people will be around most of the time to help you find something to do.

Join IRC: This is the main communication channel that our developer community uses. Install an IRC client or use IRC in your browser: Go to channel #wmhackconnect on chat.freenode.net, add a Nickname (ex: "yourname"), click the check box to prove you're not a robot, click "Connect" and you are in our channel!

[ For the IRC cloud in the browser ] You shall be prompted to join 'NickServ', once you shall try to join the channel # wmhack before registering your nickname.

If you have ideas of sessions or examples but don't want to add them in the schedule yet, feel free to add them here!

What

Host

Introduction to Wikidata for newcomers

A general introduction for people who are not familiar with Wikidata yet.

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (I proposed, but I'd gladly hand it over to anyone from the Wikidata community)

How to use Wikidata's data

An introduction to the technical side of Wikidata and how you can retrieve and query data from Wikidata (APIs, Query Service, etc.)

Lea Lacroix (WMDE) (I proposed, but I'd gladly hand it over to anyone from the Wikidata community)

Open source guide to contributing to Wikimedia projects

A general introduction to contributing to an open source project with specific emphasis on Wikimedia open source projects for beginners

Agatevure Glory (Agatevure Glory can work with anyone who is also interested in the topic)

Brainstorm/working session on data modeling for Structured Data on Wikimedia Commons, focusing on GLAM files and copyright. Note: this session has now been organized as a small-scale workshop on Monday May 11, 15.00-17.00 CEST, with a few community members and representatives from Europeana, DPLA and Creative Commons. Ping Spinster if you want to be invited or want to see the agenda and notes.

(Social event) Dog walk / desert ramble : If you need a break from coding come join us as we stream our dog walks and neighborhood nature. You are welcome to stream your walk as well or just hang out. If you would like to stream your own outdoor walk later on you are welcome to use this video link and announce that it is live in the hackathon telegram channel.

Technical Wishes Workshop: What challenges do you face in your interactions with Wikipedia and the MediaWiki software that runs it? The Technical Wishes team wants to hear. We’ll be leading a virtual workshop to discuss issues and do some brainstorming as a group. We’re looking forward to meeting you. RSVP on phabricator.

I'd like to support the organization team with whatever they need. I can answer questions about Wikidata or help you find the resources or people that you need to work on Wikidata-related projects. I'm generally interested in methods and tips to organize remote events.

I'll work on my (first!) Wikidata-project on Witches, starting with mapping and adding new data from the Low Lands, but in the mean time probably stumbling over and into other things.

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Telegram, e-mail. Throwing pebble stones at my window always gets my attention. Pigeons work as well, though mine live at my parents house at the moment. No smoke signals please, I quit five years ago.

Working on various small tasks unless a bigger idea presents itself. Likely to be working on tasks in the realms of ShoutWiki, Social Tools, cross-wiki integration/compatability and political data in Wikidata/Wikipedia.